Chattanooga ValleyGA
The town has 4,601 residents and lies in Georgia.
Is Chattanooga Valley a good place to live?
A town with more to fix than most. Its weakest subject is health (D): residents are less healthy than 86% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Chattanooga Valley ranks 185th of 258 in Georgia, with a D overall. Set against the rest, it does better than 13% of U.S. towns. Walkability is weaker too. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. Where it does best is cost of living (B): a typical home costs about $205K, 2.8 years of the Chattanooga metro’s $72K median household income. 31% of residents live below the poverty line in the town, against 15% in Georgia’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES.
99% of working residents leave Chattanooga Valley for work
Where Chattanooga Valley’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Chattanooga Valley grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Chattanooga Valley is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Lookout Mountain and 19 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Chattanooga Valley. Close and well known come first.
5 mi MountainLookout Mountain
7 mi WaterfallRuby Falls18 mi CaveEllison's Cave7 mi Theme parkLake Winnepesaukah
3 mi National Military ParkChickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park972K visitors a year
9 mi Zoo & aquariumTennessee AquariumPhoto credits
Lookout Mountain: Teke, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ruby Falls: Oydman (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park: Lhughesw5, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Tennessee Aquarium: Ɱ, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Chattanooga Valley: who provides what
Chattanooga Valley is unincorporated, so Walker County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Chattanooga Valley.
Chattanooga Valley sends many workers across the state line to East Ridge and is healthier than towns with similar incomes, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Georgia (mostly inland flooding).
For health, Chattanooga Valley earns a D
Against the 6,730 U.S. towns with household incomes like Chattanooga Valley’s, it is less healthy than 71%, so that grade isn’t only a matter of income.
Chattanooga Valley: nearly two in five adults sleep under 7 hours. In Chattanooga Valley, 18% of adults smoke cigarettes, and 32% get no exercise outside work.
| Chattanooga Valley | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 29% | 25% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Chattanooga Valley | GA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 10.1% | 6.5% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 19.8% | 14.5% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.3% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Chattanooga Valley’s public schools trail 54% of Georgia districts
Its public schools are run by the Walker County school district. One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. 2 public schools serve Chattanooga Valley, with 867 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chattanooga Valley Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 449 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within GA on state tests and graduation
About one in three of Chattanooga Valley’s working residents commute to Chattanooga
51% of working residents cross a state line to work, East Ridge among the top destinations. Chattanooga Valley has 315 jobs for its 1,538 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Chattanooga Valley dropped by 94, to 315. Most people who work leave Chattanooga Valley to do it: just 1% work in town. For Chattanooga Valley, the typical household income is $53,000. Half commute less than 12 miles.
| Chattanooga Valley | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 31% | 15% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 9.2% | 8% |
| Median household income | $53,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Chattanooga Valley has mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 89.1°: hotter than most of the country, but cooler than 81% of Georgia places with climate records; January nights average 31°.
The January low for Chattanooga Valley comes to 31°F. Snowfall is close to zero.
| Chattanooga Valley | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 31°F | 33°F | 22°F |
| July high | 89°F | 90°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Natural hazards: high risk in Chattanooga Valley, mostly inland flooding
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 87% of Georgia towns, with expected losses of about $446 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
Chattanooga Valley’s risk rating from FEMA is 67 of 100. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 39% come from inland flooding and 30% from tornadoes. Since 2009, one flood insurance claim has been paid locally.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median home in Chattanooga Valley sells for about $238K
At 2.8 years of the Chattanooga metro’s $72K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 78% of Georgia towns; that ratio is one input to its B for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $1,047, against $2,341 across Georgia, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
In Chattanooga Valley, 71% of households live in a home they own. The midpoint rent locally is $1,051 a month.
| Chattanooga Valley | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 71% | 58% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,051 a month | $1,160 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Chattanooga Valley
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Chattanooga Valley
About 6 of every 100 Chattanooga Valley residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Georgia.
About Chattanooga Valley
Place in Georgia, United States
Chattanooga Valley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Walker County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,962 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Chattanooga is a Muskogean-language name meaning "rock coming to a point".
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- Area
- 7.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 745 ft
Chattanooga Valley’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Chattanooga Valley.
| Town | GA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chattanooga Valley | #185 | D | B | — | B− | D |
| Fairview | #129 | C | A | — | B− | D |
Chattanooga Valley and Fairview report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Chattanooga Valley with a neighbor →
Questions about Chattanooga Valley
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Chattanooga Valley, GA a good place to live?
Chattanooga Valley grades D overall, better than 13% of U.S. towns and #185 of 258 in Georgia. It grades D for health and B− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Chattanooga Valley, GA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $205,000, 38% below the Georgia typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.